{"id":18222,"date":"2019-09-05T17:08:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T23:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=59923"},"modified":"2019-09-12T08:58:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T14:58:04","slug":"winter-park-employee-attacked-by-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/winter-park-employee-attacked-by-bear\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Park employee attacked by bear"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CPW has received over 3,800 bear-incident reports since April 1.<\/strong>
Courtesy DJ Hannigan, CPW<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

A Winter Park Pub employee got quite the scare from a bear hiding inside a dumpster last week.<\/p>\n

Around midnight Aug. 29, the worker took out some trash and didn\u2019t notice anything strange, as the dumpster lids were closed, Colorado Parks and Wildlife Officer Mike Porras shared.<\/p>\n

When the employee opened the dumpster though, a bear inside of it swatted the employee\u2019s head. The employee sustained a scratch on the top of his head, but was wearing a hat that likely helped protect him from more serious injuries, Porras said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFortunately, the individual was not more injured because there was a significant potential,\u201d Porras said.<\/p>\n

CPW was informed of the incident on Aug. 30 and sent officers to location to scout for the bear. Porras said the bear had been seen numerous times in that area, but no one had ever called CPW to report it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very typical for bears that have found an easy source of food in dumpsters and trash within the community, they\u2019re going to come back,\u201d Porras said. \u201cBy not calling CPW, it\u2019s an irresponsible decision that puts people at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ultimately, officers put the bear down because it attacked a human, but also because it was \u201cone of the most aggressive, if not the most aggressive, bears (officers) have ever seen in that area.\u201d<\/p>\n

Porras estimates the black bear weighed around 400 pounds, a sign that he frequented that dumpster or others for food.<\/p>\n

Though many people avoid calling CPW when they see a bear by a dumpster or residential area because of the misconception that the \u201cbear is just being a bear,\u201d allowing bear-human interactions is irresponsible, Porras said.<\/p>\n

So far this year, CPW has received over 3,800 bear incident reports since April 1, most of them involving bears trying to find food.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf people call us right away, there\u2019s a good chance we can get that bear out of town and keep it away from people and there\u2019s a good chance that bear will not return,\u201d he said. \u201cBut if people tolerate a bear in a dumpster in trash in town is not a good situation or an acceptable situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

CPW is preparing for bear incidents to pick up as they begin to prepare for hibernation, spending up to 20 hours a day trying to eat 20,000 calories or more. Porras encouraged people to educate themselves on the Bear Aware responsibilities listed on CPW\u2019s website to help prevent bear-human interactions.<\/p>\n

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CPW has received over 3,800 bear-incident reports since April 1.Courtesy DJ Hannigan, CPW A Winter Park Pub employee got quite the scare from a bear hiding inside a dumpster last week. Around midnight Aug. 29, the worker took out some trash and didn\u2019t notice anything strange, as the dumpster lids were closed, Colorado Parks and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 04:19:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18403,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18222\/revisions\/18403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}